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Jenny LeeEcho Mobile

Jenny Lee is working in Nairobi as a summer consultant with Echo Mobile and is pursing a master’s degree in public administration at Columbia University. She previously worked as a policy adviser to the Australian Federal Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development, working in policies and programs on city-wide passenger movements, the freight industry and heavy vehicles. She is passionate about assisting developing countries with innovative and sustainable transportation policies.

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Kenya's roads are deadly due in no small part to accidents involving "matatus," the ubiquitous minibuses. A key problem: The more passengers they pick up, the more matatu drivers get paid. So Echo Mobile and a team from the University of California at Berkeley recently launched the SmartMatatu project to study driver behavior and how they might be incentivized differently.